This is like you should feel ok watching the new series because some of the staff are conscientious wage slaves rather than full-on fascist bootlickers.
Why is it that everyone associated with Harry Potter gets to be a star? There was a thread yesterday about whoever played Lavender Brown, and she also got called “Harry Potter Star,” even though nobody seemed to remember the character even being in the movies. There has to be a cutoff somewhere.
Lavender Brown is one of the most memorable characters (aside from the core actors) from the movies imo, because she's black in the first several and the instant she becomes relevant to the story she's white. They've got all kinds of wacky magic in that school
if you are so opposed perhaps you should organise a strike with your coworkers until they introduce a cool trans character into the series. Then watch rowling foam like a rabid rowling.
Even if they did, she’d still use the profits to attack human rights organisations.
The video game had trans characters. But hardly anyone was ever mentioning that because the boycott was louder.
and it was still not loud enough, as people still indirectly funded anti-trans policies by buying that game
Not that "strongly" obviously.
But not enough to pass on that fat-ass check
Then don't accept the role. Put your money where your mouth is. Coward.
Still planning on cashing them checks though ain't ya Bel?
« I strongly disagree with her … I’ll still play to make her some more money »
I understand that capitalism is dehumanizing us but this piece make me sad
Then don't take the role. Don't participate in Harry Potter (Joanna's Version). Don't feed the machine
It kind of seems like if a vegan worked on a CAFO and processed livestock for slaughter ..
Virtue jerking is funny.
Sounds like they should cancel the series, since it primarily exists to distance Rowling from the naysayers who were in the movies. Now that those in the series are also opposed to her views… what’s even the point anymore?
I think making her cash cow make more cash overrides her need to push her shitty views on other people. That said maybe she plans on making the cash cow do both with the upcoming series, I guess only the people who actually watch it will be the ones to find out.
Fair point. A part of me does want to watch the series, because I was a fan of the books and the movies way back when (before JK Rowling was a dumpster fire). There's a reason I haven't bought the movies on Blu-ray/4K. Or the new audiobooks (I don't have the old ones, either.) And why I won't be watching the show. I did buy the game, Hogwarts Legacy, on Xbox, on a fire sale, it was like ten bucks. The one with a trans character in Hogsmeade that takes place like 100 years before Voldemort's birth. Pretty sure JK Rowling does not approve of that game.
Yeah it's annoying that she couldn't help herself but use her fame and fortune to push a shitty bigoted opinion. Her books brought so much joy to so many but her opinions have really tainted everything's she's touched.
and i heard she is trying to retcon the og actors, and the series with her views.
The primary existence is easy money.
Okay so that's why I don't recognize her. She's not a star from Harry Potter the movies, she's a star from the soon to be released TV series Harry Potter which I guess it going to be a redo of the adaptabarationisms.
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